I have decided - after running Foresight for two months - to no longer use Foresight Linux on my systems. Let me say however that I found the experience interesting and dare I say - challenging.

According to its past and present marketing, Foresight Linux has three claims to fame: Its user-friendliness, its use of the Conary package management system, and its role as a showcase for the latest in GNOME.

Foresight is an rPath-based, desktop-oriented Linux distribution. It is a rolling release distribution, so there is no need for frequent releases associated with other distributions that do not have this feature. In fact, this release, Foresight 2.5.0, is the first major release since February 2009 when Foresight 2.1.0 was released.

Welcome to the November edition of the Foresight Linux Newsletter. With the recent release of the first alpha of Foresight Linux 2, this month's newsletter will take a detailed look at the release, including changes from the 1.x releases, how to test both the GNOME edition and new KDE edition, and the next alpha of Foresight Linux 2.

Foresight Linux is a relatively new distribution based on rPath Linux and featuring the latest Gnome and freedesktop.org desktop. This review of Foresight's latest version, 1.4, will attempt to show the strengths of this distro and why not, give you a reason to try it next time you go distro hopping!

Welcome to the December edition of the Foresight Linux Newsletter. This month we take a look at the initial launch of the GNOME Developer Kit based on Foresight Linux, a look back at the year in review, an update on the next alpha of 2.0, updates to developer documentation, and news from Foresight's marketing and infrastructure teams.

"The third alpha of Foresight 2.0 has been released. Alpha 3 is available for download on rBuilder at http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/release?id=5953 for both x86 and x86_64. Please be aware that rBuilder may be down for scheduled maintenance this weekend. This alpha release is not intended for every day use, but for testing and development of Foresight..."

On his latest post titled “Foresight Linux is dead?“, Thilo Pfennigs rightly asks the question that many of the current Foresight Linux users may be asking themselves. With the current stable release dated as of May 2009 and no explicit roadmap stating when the next release will be published, is it really safe to say that Foresight Linux is indeed dead?

Foresight Linux is a release that I hadn't heard of before they appeared in the "latest distributions" bit on Distrowatch when I was hunting for new review material. One of my favourite things to do is try releases I've not heard of before... And so we enter Foresight.